{"id":240930,"date":"2026-07-15T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-the-universe-generates-time-and-space-from-a-single-rewriting-rule-stephen-wolfram"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:06:37","slug":"how-the-universe-generates-time-and-space-from-a-single-rewriting-rule-stephen-wolfram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-the-universe-generates-time-and-space-from-a-single-rewriting-rule-stephen-wolfram","title":{"rendered":"How the universe generates time and space from a single rewriting rule | Stephen Wolfram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07jmttVw2Yo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hypergraphs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. What\u2019s the ruliad? Physicist Stephen Wolfram explains.<\/p>\n<p>\u274d Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell<\/a>.<br \/> \u274d Watch Wolfram\u2019s full interview here: \u2022 Physics doesn\u2019t explain the universe. Comp\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Is it time for a new \u2018theory of everything\u2019?<br \/> World-renowned physicist Stephen Wolfram explains his theory that the universe may be built from simple computational rules. He describes space as a giant network made of tiny \u201catoms of space,\u201d constantly updating in ways that create time, gravity, quantum mechanics, and the laws of physics. He also introduces the ruliad: the space of all possible computations. Ultimately, Wolfram argues that reality may be far more complex than we can see, shaped by both the universe and how we observe it.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full video transcript: <a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/objective\">https:\/\/bigthink.com\/videos\/objective<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/how-the-universe-generates-time-and-space-from-a-single-rewriting-rule-stephen-wolfram\">Continue reading \u201cHow the universe generates time and space from a single rewriting rule | Stephen Wolfram\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypergraphs. We experience only one small slice of the ruliad. What\u2019s the ruliad? Physicist Stephen Wolfram explains. \u274d Subscribe to The Well on YouTube: https:\/\/bit.ly\/welcometothewell. \u274d Watch Wolfram\u2019s full interview here: \u2022 Physics doesn\u2019t explain the universe. Comp\u2026 Is it time for a new \u2018theory of everything\u2019? World-renowned physicist Stephen Wolfram explains his theory that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,47,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}